Barbets (Capitonidae)
Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird (Pogoniulus chrysoconus) - HBW 7, p. 185
French: Barbion à front jaune
German: Gelbstirn-Bartvogel
Spanish: Barbudito Frentigualdo
Other common names: Yellow-fronted Barbet(!)/Tinkerbarbet
Taxonomy: Bucco chrysoconus Temminck, 1832, Senegal.
Forms a superspecies with P. pusillus, overlapping very narrowly in Ethiopia and E South Africa and apparently not hybridizing; both are also closely related to P. bilineatus and P. subsulphureus, and perhaps fairly close to P. atroflavus. Proposed races schubotzi (WC Niger to SW Sudan), zedlitzi (E Sudan) and centralis (NE Zaire and Uganda) regarded as synonyms of chrysoconus; schoanus (C Ethiopia) included in xanthostictus; and rhodesiae (SW Zaire to Malawi) and mayri (S Zaire to NE Angola) in extoni... View all taxonomy...
Forms a superspecies with P. pusillus, overlapping very narrowly in Ethiopia and E South Africa and apparently not hybridizing; both are also closely related to P. bilineatus and P. subsulphureus, and perhaps fairly close to P. atroflavus. Proposed races schubotzi (WC Niger to SW Sudan), zedlitzi (E Sudan) and centralis (NE Zaire and Uganda) regarded as synonyms of chrysoconus; schoanus (C Ethiopia) included in xanthostictus; and rhodesiae (SW Zaire to Malawi) and mayri (S Zaire to NE Angola) in extoni. Three subspecies currently recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- chrysoconus (Temminck, 1832) - SW Mauritania and Senegal E to NW Ethiopia, S to N edge of forest in C Cameroon, N & NE Zaire, Burundi and NW Tanzania.
- xanthostictus (Blundell & Lovat, 1899) - highlands of C & S Ethiopia.
- extoni (E. L. Layard, 1871) - Angola and S Zaire E to S Tanzania, S to NC Namibia, N Botswana, Transvaal and S Mozambique.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A bird on top of a tree and flying away Locality Paraa Safari Lodge, Murchison Falls National Park, Uganda (ssp chrysoconus)
Josep del Hoyo 28 August 2006 5 years ago 25 sec 3.6 -
A bird moving among branches of a tree and flying away Locality Mweya Lodge, Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda (ssp chrysoconus )
Josep del Hoyo 4 September 2006 4 years ago 32 sec 3.6 -
A female in a tree, waiting to be fed by the male. Locality Abuko Rice Fields, Abuko, Western Division, The Gambia (ssp chrysoconus)
Pieter de Groot Boersma 1 November 2008 2 years ago 44 sec 3 -
A pair copulating in a tree. Locality Abuko Rice Fields, Abuko, Western Division, The Gambia (ssp chrysoconus)
Pieter de Groot Boersma 1 November 2008 2 years ago 24 sec 3 -
A female regurgitating a seed, and immediately being courtship fed a berry by a male. Locality Abuko Rice Fields, Abuko, Western Division, The Gambia (ssp chrysoconus)
Pieter de Groot Boersma 1 November 2008 2 years ago 12 sec 3
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adult male
Locality Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda
Marco Valentini 17 August 2009 50 weeks ago 4 -
Adult on a branch
Locality Saly, Thiès Region, Senegal (ssp chrysoconus)
Alain Fossé 17 February 2004 2 years ago 4 -
In tree
Locality Akagera National Park, East Province, Rwanda
Jason Anderson 15 November 2009 1 year ago 3.3 -
A bird eating a small fruit.
Locality Mole National Park, Northern Region, Ghana (ssp chrysoconus)
Arthur Grosset 3 June 2011 24 weeks ago 3 -
Close-up view.
Locality Pilanesberg National Park, North West Province, South Africa
Robert Erasmus 16 August 2010 1 year ago 3
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